New Isotope Evidence for Diachronic and Site-Spatial Variation in Precontact Diet during the Little Ice Age at Nunalleq, Southwest Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kate Britton
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1/2, The Past in the Yup’ik Present: Archaeologies of Climate Change in Western Alaska, 2019, pp. 223-242
Description
Using archeological data to examine the changes of the Yup'ik diet during different time periods and what those changes can tell about Yup'ik history.
New Radiocarbon Dates for the Fidler Mounds (EaLf-3) Site, Manitoba, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara R. Hewitt
E. Leigh Syms
Robert D. Hoppa
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 77-95
Description
New accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dates on bone collagen for burials place the date at 380 years ago plus or minus 80 years.
The Ngaut Ngaut Interpretive Project: Collaboration and Mutually Beneficial Outcomes
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Amy Roberts
Isobelle Campbell
The SAA Archaeological Record, vol. 12, no. 4, September 2012, pp. 33-35
Description
Describes a project between a university archaeologist and the Mannun Aboriginal Community Association to produce interpretive signs, educational posters and brochures. Entire issue on one pdf.
To access article, scroll to page 33.
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897-98. In Two Parts - Part 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Description
Report includes the following papers:
Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Localization of Tusayan Clans by Cosmos Mindeleff
Mounds in Northern Honduras by Thomas Gann
Mayan Calendar Systems by Cyrus Thomas
Primitive Numbers by W. J. McGee
Numeral Systems of Mexico and Central America by Cyrus Thomas
Tusayan Flute and Snake Ceremonies by Jesse Walter Fewkes
The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes by Albert Ernest Jenks
Nipawi, on the Saskatchewan River, and its Historic Sites
Alternate Title
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada ; 3rd series, section 2 ; vol. 38, 194
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Arthur S. Morton
Description
This history deals primarily with the fur trade and the numerous posts in the "Nipawi", or Fort a la Corne and Nipawin areas along the Saskatchewan River from the 1750s to the 1790s. It contains historical and field research by Morton on the various French, Northwest Company, Independent, and Hudson's Bay Company posts found in this region of what is today Saskatchewan. Morton also discusses the war between the Cree and the original Atsina, or Gros Ventre, inhabitants of the area, as well as trade between First Nations and Europeans.
Historical note:
Northern Archaic Settlement and Subsistence Patterns at Agiak Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aaron K. Wilson
Jeffrey T. Rasic
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008, pp. 128-145
Description
Looks at the unique perspective of Northern Archaic settlement patterns, land use and the large number of prehistoric tent ring sites in the central Brooks Range, Alaska.
Northern Dene Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ed Labenski
Description
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.
Northern Miwok at Big Bar: A Glimpse into the Lives of Pedro and Lily O'Connor
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Gary Maniery and Dwight Dutschke
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 481-495
Description
Using oral interviews along side archeological evidence to piece together the lives of a Miwok couple in the early twentieth century.
Notes on the Archaeology of the Utukok River, Northwestern Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond M. Thompson
American Antiquity, vol. 14, no. 1, July 1948, pp. 62-65
Description
In 1947 a United States Geological Survey field party discovered 17 archaeological sites and found a well made Folsom point.
Notes on the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland
Alternate Title
Annual Report of the National Museum of Canada 1927
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Diamond Jenness
Description
A summary of Diamond Jenness's 1927 trip to Newfoundland, where he studied the existence of Inuit features in Beothuk culture, the apparent absence of very ancient Beothuk remains in Newfoundland, and aspects of the Dorset-Eskimo culture.
Nunalleq: Archaeology, Climate Change, and Community Engagement in a Yup'ik Village
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotta Hillerdal
Rick Knecht
Warren Jones
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, The Archaeology of Northern Coasts, 2019, pp. 4-17
Description
Article presents an overview of the most recent results of research on the Nunalleq site in Southwestern Alaska. Stresses the need for community engagement and community centered archaeology in arctic regions.
Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Kehoe
Alice B. Kehoe
American Antiquity, vol. 25, no. 3, January 1960, pp. 420-423
Description
Analysis of what was taken and what was left, if meat had to be transported, and which bones were used for tools.
Obsidian Source Use in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Wyoming Basin, and Central Rocky Mountains
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura L. Scheiber
Judson Byrd Finley
American Antiquity, vol. 76, no. 2, April 2011, pp. 372-394
Description
Contends that changes in volcanic glass artifacts demonstrate a response to cultural contact between Indigenous groups and Europeans.
Of Boundaries and Borders: First Nations' History in Museums
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Moira McLoughlin
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 18, no. 3, [Crossing Borders: Issues in Native Communications], Summer, 1993, pp. [365-385]
Description
Reviews museums' traditional approach to native culture and contends that the division between "white" and aboriginal history is artificial and reinforces the idea that European culture being superior to that of indigenous peoples.
Old Questions: New Answers? Some Thoughts on the Origin and Antiquity of Man in Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Urray
Aboriginal History , vol. 2, no. 2, 1978, pp. 149-166
Description
Offers new insights into the current debate about how long man has been in Australia using new information released about physical anthropology and prehistory.
The Olsen-Chubbuck Site: A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill
Alternate Title
American Antiquity; vol. 37, no. 1, pt. 2, 1972
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology; no. 26
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joe Ben Wheat
Harold E. Malde
Estella B. Leopold
Description
Discussion of site dating from around 6500 B.C. which contains a bone-bed of almost 200 bison.
On Eskaleutian Linguistics, Archaeology, and Prehistory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. E. Dumond
American Anthropologist, vol. 67, no. 5, pt. 1, New Series, October 1965, pp. 1231-1257
Description
Reviews efforts to classify Inuit and the ethnic relationships implied by the classification and examines archaeological evidence to see if it supports these theoretical relationships.